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Beginning Ruby
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I created this site about 6 months ago for programmers to rank their favorite programming books. The concept is simple, you rank your top 5 favorite books for a particular subject like "Ruby" or "Software Engineering". Specifically here are the top ranked Ruby Books. And here's the list of Top books every programmer should read.
Of course, this only really works well if more people rank books, so if you've read this book, rank it(and any other ones you've read).
There's a lot of horrible programming books out there. I wrote this web app to help programmers easily find the good ones. Basically programmers rank their top 5 books based on category(in this case, php books). It only works if people use it though, so rank the good programming books you've read!
I hate to shill my own stuff, but I recently created a site for ranking programming books based on category(language, api, etc) that I think most developers will find very useful. Basically programmers rank their top 5 books for each category. It's very simple, and hopefully useful. It's in a pain finding quality programming books. The only real resource is browsing/searching through amazon, which can be a real pain.
It's a http server written ruby(and c where speed matters) that is very easy to install and get up and running and performs as fast as lighttpd.
What a lot of people are doing is setting up apache 2.2 to serve static pages, and proxy any rails requests to mongrel... There's no fastcgi/fcgid involved.
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yeah this is a good point. I've tried to explain Ruby on Rails to both php developers and java developers and the java developers just get it.. they completely understand the benefits and usually fall in love with it.
On the other hand, the php developers really have a tough time grasping the concepts behind RoR. I think this is mostly because they have ever seen a MVC pattern. They are so used to mixing all their business logic in with their HTML, it's hard to comprehend the benefits of RoR and using an MVC pattern for a web app.
Almost everything google does has been done before and done better. web-based spreadsheet? web-based calendar? web-based maps? web-based e-mail? With the exception of e-mail, everything has been done before and done better than google did it.
>>The biggest annoyance was automated code generation
You mean the scaffolding functionality? That's a very very small part of Ruby on Rails and It's one of the most useless ones. Most of the knowledgeable Rails programmers don't use scaffolding at all. It's great for a quick CRUD prototype, but that's about it.
That's the *only* code generation going on in rails.
Also since IE5, there has been protection against this type of attack.
1. Click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel, and then double-click Internet. 2. Click the Security tab. 3. Under Select a Web content zone to specify its security settings, click Internet. 4. Click Custom Level. 5. Under Navigate sub-frames across different domains, click Disable. 6. Click OK.
I got scammed out of $1,500 on ebay a couple months ago... I researched a bit on what my options where and filed complaints to paypal and ebay. Paypal found the seller guilty and was able to get me back a total of *50* dollars out of the $1,500.
It's amazing how difficult it is to get anything done about online fraud.
let's see... with consoles, companies don't have to worry about piracy, and they get to develop for 1 hardware platform instead of the 1000's of different combinations of pc hardware. seems obvious to me, that eventually, most games will be developed for a console system.
Great book that teachs by going through an example of building a very simple Post/Cash register system.
Covers Requirements, use cases, functional specs, conceptual models, system sequence, collab, design class diagrams, and finally patterns and how to map your finished design to code.
Very easy to read and understand. highly recommended!
I've spent the better part of the last 3 years playing everquest and I've seen many people waste away.
The players who make up the high level game spend MASSIVE amounts of time in game. I know many people who have over 300+ DAYS of time logged into the game...
Players often quit, only to return a few months later usually with an excuse like *RL is boring* or something similar. Sounds more and more like drug addiction doesn't it?
The thing that worries me the most though is that most of these people are kids who are either in high school or just got out. They have no ambition or desire to do anything but play everquest. When I was their age I was spending all my time programming, reading books, and learning skills necessary to succeed in life. If everquest were around back then, I would probably be working fast food making $6 a hour now.
Almost every game company out there now is making a MMORPG like everquest. Worlds of warcraft, shadowbane, neverwinter nights, final fantasy XI, Everquest for the console, star wars galaxies, daoc, anarchy online, and many more. The market is going to be completely saturated with heroinware in the next fear years.
The current generation of kids growing up is going to be nothing but a bunch of computer crazed, game addicted losers who spend all their time in some virtual world slaying some pixel dragon.
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I created this site about 6 months ago for programmers to rank their favorite programming books. The concept is simple, you rank your top 5 favorite books for a particular subject like "Ruby" or "Software Engineering". Specifically here are the top ranked Ruby Books. And here's the list of Top books every programmer should read. Of course, this only really works well if more people rank books, so if you've read this book, rank it(and any other ones you've read).
Rank this book if you've read it!
http://www.programmingbooks.org/PHP
There's a lot of horrible programming books out there. I wrote this web app to help programmers easily find the good ones. Basically programmers rank their top 5 books based on category(in this case, php books). It only works if people use it though, so rank the good programming books you've read!
I hate to shill my own stuff, but I recently created a site for ranking programming books based on category(language, api, etc) that I think most developers will find very useful. Basically programmers rank their top 5 books for each category. It's very simple, and hopefully useful. It's in a pain finding quality programming books. The only real resource is browsing/searching through amazon, which can be a real pain.
http://www.programmingbooks.org/
For example, here are the top ranked CSS books: http://www.programmingbooks.org/CSS (not many users have ranked css books)
yeah. I realize that not every php developer is like that, but the vast majority are.
Mongrel is the latest and greatest to handle rails requests. http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/
It's a http server written ruby(and c where speed matters) that is very easy to install and get up and running and performs as fast as lighttpd.
What a lot of people are doing is setting up apache 2.2 to serve static pages, and proxy any rails requests to mongrel... There's no fastcgi/fcgid involved.
yeah this is a good point. I've tried to explain Ruby on Rails to both php developers and java developers and the java developers just get it.. they completely understand the benefits and usually fall in love with it.
On the other hand, the php developers really have a tough time grasping the concepts behind RoR. I think this is mostly because they have ever seen a MVC pattern. They are so used to mixing all their business logic in with their HTML, it's hard to comprehend the benefits of RoR and using an MVC pattern for a web app.
Almost everything google does has been done before and done better. web-based spreadsheet? web-based calendar? web-based maps? web-based e-mail? With the exception of e-mail, everything has been done before and done better than google did it.
These "digital lightroom" applications are nothing new. Capture One has been around for years and is an awesome application.
http://www.phaseone.com/
Have you even used rails? It's just as easy to use Postgres or sqlite then it is to use MySQL.
>>The biggest annoyance was automated code generation
You mean the scaffolding functionality? That's a very very small part of Ruby on Rails and It's one of the most useless ones. Most of the knowledgeable Rails programmers don't use scaffolding at all. It's great for a quick CRUD prototype, but that's about it.
That's the *only* code generation going on in rails.
there are a lot of them...
Sarissa - http://sarissa.sourceforge.net/doc/
Prototype - http://prototype.conio.net/
Dojo - http://dojotoolkit.org/
SAJAX - http://absinth.modernmethod.com/sajax/
DWR - http://www.getahead.ltd.uk/dwr/
JSON-RPC-Java - http://oss.metaparadigm.com/jsonrpc/
If you read the page on secunia that you linked, you would see that this *has* been patched more than 2 years ago.
n /ms98-020.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulleti
Also since IE5, there has been protection against this type of attack.
1. Click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel, and then double-click Internet.
2. Click the Security tab.
3. Under Select a Web content zone to specify its security settings, click Internet.
4. Click Custom Level.
5. Under Navigate sub-frames across different domains, click Disable.
6. Click OK.
write a c app that makes an infinite number of fork() calls?
I got scammed out of $1,500 on ebay a couple months ago... I researched a bit on what my options where and filed complaints to paypal and ebay. Paypal found the seller guilty and was able to get me back a total of *50* dollars out of the $1,500.
:
It's amazing how difficult it is to get anything done about online fraud.
Anyways, in doing research, here is a very helpful site I found : http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/!turk
and don't ever order from these companies
http://www.factory101.com/
http://www.my1stop2gaming.com/
http://www.masonavenue.com/
let's see... with consoles, companies don't have to worry about piracy, and they get to develop for 1 hardware platform instead of the 1000's of different combinations of pc hardware. seems obvious to me, that eventually, most games will be developed for a console system.
some good sites to find cheap prices :
$29.95 at Bookpool
bookpool is the cheapest place to buy new technical books like 99% of the time...
here
Bookpool : $32.50
bookpool almost always has the cheapest programming books.
shockwave version of pitfall
http://www.langleycreations.com/pitfall/
by far the most useful site for developers is http://groups.google.com
rarely have i not found the answer to a question
The best book i've ran across that teachs analysis, design, as well as UML syntax, and design patterns is:
Applying UML and Patterns : An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
Great book that teachs by going through an example of building a very simple Post/Cash register system.
Covers Requirements, use cases, functional specs, conceptual models, system sequence, collab, design class diagrams, and finally patterns and how to map your finished design to code.
Very easy to read and understand. highly recommended!
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I've spent the better part of the last 3 years playing everquest and I've seen many people waste away.
The players who make up the high level game spend MASSIVE amounts of time in game. I know many people who have over 300+ DAYS of time logged into the game...
Players often quit, only to return a few months later usually with an excuse like *RL is boring* or something similar. Sounds more and more like drug addiction doesn't it?
The thing that worries me the most though is that most of these people are kids who are either in high school or just got out. They have no ambition or desire to do anything but play everquest. When I was their age I was spending all my time programming, reading books, and learning skills necessary to succeed in life. If everquest were around back then, I would probably be working fast food making $6 a hour now.
Almost every game company out there now is making a MMORPG like everquest. Worlds of warcraft, shadowbane, neverwinter nights, final fantasy XI, Everquest for the console, star wars galaxies, daoc, anarchy online, and many more. The market is going to be completely saturated with heroinware in the next fear years.
The current generation of kids growing up is going to be nothing but a bunch of computer crazed, game addicted losers who spend all their time in some virtual world slaying some pixel dragon.
Oh well, I'm glad I quit (again).